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" The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. "

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" To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. "

Robert Schumann

" Through a painting we can see the whole world. "

" Cleanliness is the scourge of art. "

" My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it. "

Giacomo Casanova

" Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people. "

Kenneth Lonergan

" Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude. "

" An empty canvas is full. "

Robert Rauschenberg

" You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go. "

" Before the people at large, and for that matter, the artists themselves, understand what photography really means, as I understand that term, it is essential for them to be taught the real meaning of art. "

Alfred Stieglitz

" I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate. Do you have to know them? No, but certainly it is nice to recognise how deeply these things are embedded in our literature, our art. "

" They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. "

" Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art. "

" Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. "

" I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. "

" Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings. "

" In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. "

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

" An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. "

Charles Horton Cooley

" Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting. "

Robert Delaunay

" The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. "

" If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. "

Honore de Balzac

" With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing 'philosophy of the universe' through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call 'stereotypical repetition.' "

" Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them. "

" An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's. "

" In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife. "

" There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause. "

" Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. "

" My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see. "

" There's nothing more mundane than sitting across from a celebrity in a sterile gray conference room. But when the star sitting across from you is Taraji Penda Henson, you are being treated to a master class in the art of the hustle. "

" A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. "

Vladimir Nabokov